CRYPTO HEADLINES - news

[and4rik]

https://news.bitcoin.com/indian-prim...cy-regulation/

PM Modi and government deciding on level of crypto regulation, wether to ban crypto payments

[and4rik]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.coi...outputType=amp

PM Modi Twitter account hacked while finalizing new crypto legislation

[SilverPalm]

Blockchain gets explained to Congress

Short clips -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSTNhBlfV_s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux6CmsrOFeo

The long version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddE4KUTotiU

[and4rik]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.coi...outputType=amp

It appears the Indian government has delayed making a decision on crypto regulation, adopting a wait and see what everyone else is doing mode. Next decision moved to late january.
There are an estimated 15 million to 20 million cryptocurrency investors in India, with total crypto holdings of around 400 billion rupees, according to industry estimates. That's around 52,000,000,000$

Another source cites different numbers of total users:
India 100 million.
USA 27 million.
Russia 17 million.
Nigeria 13 million.
Brazil 10 million.

The world’s top 10 crypto countries, according to the Statista data, are:

Nigeria: 32%

Vietnam: 21%

Philippines: 20%

Turkey: 16%

Peru: 16%

Switzerland: 11%

India: 9%

China: 7%

U.S.: 6%

Germany: 5%

Japan: 4%

[and4rik]

https://ambcrypto.com/in-a-yes-no-ma...to-ban-report/

Reserve Bank of India favors an outright crypto ban citing lack of government regulation. RBI is pressing their CBDC

[and4rik]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/cointel...n-startups/amp

Indian state government of Telangana proceeding with India Blockchain Accellerator program for web 2.0 and 3.0. Definitely does not look like a complete ban, these things are are used for payment systems too?

[and4rik]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DxREm3s1scA

Great interview, Lex Fridman and Elon Musk. Few minutes on crypto.

[Atlas Shrugged]

BitCON,

Ahhhahahaha

BS

[and4rik]

Tesla begins accepting DOGE for merchandise ending its testing phase. No longer accepting Bitcoin because of environmental concerns, DOGE rallied 20% on the day.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/cointel...is-a-catch/amp

[and4rik]

DOGE shorts loose big on Tesla merch news

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.coi...outputType=amp